Subject: IRAQI BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS FACILITIES  

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence 

 

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CITE CIA 286513 

 

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 

 

MARCH 1992 

COUNTRY:   IRAQ 

 

SUBJ:  IRAQI BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS FACILITIES 

SUMMARY:   THIS REPORT PROVIDES INFORMATION ON THE LOCATIONS 

OF AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS FACILITIES 

IN IRAQ. 

 

TEXT: 1.   AS OF            1991, THE MAIN OFFICES FOR THE 

IRAQI BIOLOGICAL  WEAPONS RESEARCH EFFORT WERE LOCATED IN 

BAGHDAD ON THE SAME STREET AS THE U. S. EMBASSY, IN AN AREA 

BELOW TAMIYA STREET TOWARDS THE TIGRIS RIVER AND NOT FAR 

FROM THE BABIL FILM AND CINEMA COMPANY.  THE OFFICE COMPLEX 

WAS IN THE AL MASBAR NEIGHBORHOOD, AND 

IN 1980 THE FACILITY WAS CALLED IBN AL HAITHM.  THE OFFICES 

WERE HOUSED IN SIX OR SEVEN LARGE HOUSES, LOCATED ON THE-

BANK OF THE TIGRIS RIVER, IN A COMPLEX STRETCHING FROM 

APPROXIMATELY-7TH STREET UP TO 10TH STREET. 

 

2. THE  ROAD PASSING BY THE BAGHDAD OFFICE COMPLEX WAS 

CLOSED, AND THE AREA WAS SURROUNDED BY A WIRE-MESH FENCE.  

PATROLLED By ARMED GUARDS,  

                               THE COMPLEX CONTAINED A LARGE 

NUMBER OF TREES AND APPROXIMATELY 700  METERS (M).OF 

GARDENS. COMMENT 

 

3.  THE SALMAN PAK BIOLOGICAL WARFARE FACILITY WAS LOCATED 

ON A PENINSULA CAUSED BY A BEND IN THE TIGRIS RIVER, 

APPROXIMATELY FIVE KILOMETERS (KM) FROM THE ARCH LOCATED IN 

THE TOWN OF SALMAN PAK.  THE FACILITY AREA COMPRISED MORE 

THAN 20 SQUARE KM, AND MIGHT HAVE BEEN KNOWN AS A FARMERS 

(OR AGRICULTURAL) EXPERIMENTATION CENTER.  THE PENINSULA WAS 

FENCED OFF AND PATROLLED BY A LARGE GUARD FORCE. IMMEDIATELY 

INSIDE AND TO THE EAST OF THE FENCE LINE WERE TWO OPULENT 

VILLAS: THE LARGER BUILT FOR IRAQI PRESIDENT ((SADDAM)).  

HUSAYN AND THE OTHER FOR HIS HALF-BROTHER, ((BARAZAN)) AL-

TIKRITI.  

 

4. A MAIN PAVED ROAD RAN THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE SALMAN 

PAK FACILITY/PENINSULA.